Fun Day with Fun People

Another reason I love summer time - On the weekends I get to play ALL day! Yesterday was one of those days. I spent the whole day doing fun, random activities and came home so tired and sore. It was wonderful! :)

First off, I got to sleep in...well sort of, sleeping in for real would be more like 10:00 than 8:00, but I'll take what I can get. I woke up and drove over to my brother Todd's house to go running. We have a strange tradition with running. We'll go for a really long hard run and then go eat donuts and chocolate milk right after. We get some weird looks from people at the store who see us wearing sweaty exercise clothes and chowing down on junk food. But, honestly, we really get together to eat donuts...the running is just an extra perk.

We went back to Todd's house and his kids helped me wash my car...and then I helped them wash Todd's car. We took the radio outside and and blasted country music while we were cleaning. The country music somehow turned into the Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack and me and the kids ended up dancing around on the front lawn. I'm pretty sure his neighbors thought we were crazy.

I raced home from Todd's house in my now very shiny clean red car and got back just in time to shower, talk to my brother Kevin, and leave again, this time for a hike. Me and my friend Greg drove up American Fork Canyon and hiked the Silver Lake Reservoir Trail. It was SO pretty!

This is me at the beginning. Little did I know, we would still be hiking four hours later!


This is Greg, about to fall off the cliff and into a raging river!


So Pretty!



The hour long hike that we thought it was going to be actually turned into about a four hour hike, right in the middle of the afternoon. My skin definately got some sun! Neither one of us had hiked this trail before though, so we really didn't know where we were hiking to. The path just kept climbing higher and higher. We considered turning around multiple times but we are both so stubborn that we just kept going. But it was definately worth it when we finally got to the end. We climbed over the last set of rocks and the scene opened up into a beautiful glacier lake. We had our swimming suits with us so we threw off our clothes and jumped into the lake. It was FREEZING! The water was so cold that it burned. But yes, we jumped in three times, because we are that cool. :)

You can see the snow falling right into the lake. Burrr!

When I got home that night, I was so tired and sore. I grabbed my nephew Blake and we went and soaked in the hottub until it got dark. Well, I soaked, He swam around and tried to splash me with cold water from the big pool.

It's days like this that I want to remember most. Nothing spectacular happened, but I was able to fill my day with friends and family...and that's what matters most in life.